Prefetch Notifier

By Adam Hahn Last update Dec 18, 2008 — Installed 98 times. Daily Installs: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Script Summary:
Makes prefetched resources visible to the user by dashing links' underlines

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Lets you know when a site (most likely Google) is prefetching content in the background by making links dashed instead of underlined.

If Google is pretty sure a link will be clicked on, it may prefetch the link. Google doesn't always do this, though--only when "confident" enough. Seeing when Google is confident you’ll click on stuff is interesting and the reason I wrote the script.

Basically turns this:

into this:

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